Of bookmen & printers : a gathering of memories
Author:
Ritchie, Ward
Designer:
Ritchie, Ward
Publisher:
Dawson's Book Shop
Printer:
Premier Printing Corporation
By Ward Ritchie
Contents, For Ward a foreword / by Lawrence Clark Powell -- A bookman's Los Angeles in the 1930s -- Jake Zeitlin, when he was joyous young -- Paul Landacre, artist and wood engraver -- Merle Armitage, his many loves and varied lives -- Robinson Jeffers, recollections of the poet -- Jane Grabhorn, the roguish printer of the Jumbo Press -- Paris adventure with François-Louis Schmied -- John Cage, the maniac of music -- St. John Hornby and the Ashendene Press -- A requiem for Lawrence Clark Powell -- Virginia City and the genesis of a cookbook.
Revisions of articles previously published.
189 p ; 25 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John
Production date: AD 1989
"Five hundred copies, designed by Ward Ritchie, were printed by the Premier Printing Corporation for Dawson's Book Shop"--Colophon. Inscription: For John [Dreyfus] from his ever admiring friend. Ward Ritchie. Christmas 1989. Quarter bound in black cloth, gold stamped, with patterned paper sides.
Support composed of paper
Accession number: PB 154-2004
Primary reference Number: 118575
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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